Shannon Bahrke
Shannon Bahrke
Shannon Bahrkeis an American Olympic freestyle skier and entrepreneur. Bahrke was the silver medalist in moguls at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the bronze medalist at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and in 2003 was the World Cup Champion. With her bronze medal in 2010, she became the first US women's freestyle skier to win multiple Olympic medals. Bahrke was also the 2009 US National Champion in dual moguls. She has reached the podium twice at...
ProfessionSkier
Date of Birth7 November 1980
along cool
We pretty much live together. You have to get along with your teammates. It's really cool to be part of that.
best puts run skiing whoever
It's pretty exciting. Whoever puts down the best run ... everyone here is skiing really well. It's the person who has that day.
ski
I'm going to ski how I want to ski.
air execute perfectly
I'm going with the super-duper air package. And I'll execute it perfectly at the games.
greatest
I'm not in the greatest position. But I'm there. I was going for it. It's the Olympics.
land wrong
If you land on your head, that was the wrong way to do it.
exactly group knows olympic past underneath winners
I think the Olympic winners from the past know exactly how to be successful. They know what to expect. And there's a whole group underneath them that knows how to do it, too.
cried excited fight hard step worked year
I worked hard the whole way back. I have cried more this year than any other ... I'm just so excited to be back here. I never take no for an answer. You fight every step of the way. I'll be damned if I'm not going to make it.
anorexic
I was this skinny, ugly, anorexic thing. It was awful. It was so bad.